Galates 2
1 Puis, après une période de quatorze ans, je suis remonté à Jérusalem avec Barnabé, en prenant aussi Tite avec moi.
After 14 years passed, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas. I took Titus also.
2 Je suis monté par révélation, et j'ai exposé devant eux la Bonne Nouvelle que je prêche parmi les païens, mais en privé devant ceux qui étaient respectés, de peur de courir, ou d'avoir couru, en vain.
But [I tell you that] I went up there because of what God revealed to me. [It was not because someone there asked me to come]. I told people what was the good message that I was preaching in regions where non-Jews live. But I talked privately to those whom your new teachers highly respect. I did that in order that what I was doing and what I had done [MET] might not become useless [MET] [as a result of people rejecting my message because they thought that I was teaching something that was not true].
3 Mais même Tite, qui était avec moi, n'a pas été contraint de se faire circoncire, étant Grec.
But [even though the leaders of the believers usually insisted that when non-Jews trusted in Christ someone must circumcise them], they did not even insist that Titus be circumcised, even though he was a Greek man who was with me.
4 C'était à cause des faux frères introduits secrètement, qui s'étaient introduits pour épier la liberté que nous avons en Jésus-Christ, afin de nous réduire en servitude,
[I talked to them privately] because some people [successfully] pretended that they were fellow believers and associated with the true believers. They did that in order that they might observe closely what we do because we are free [from having to obey all the Jewish laws and rituals] because of our close relationship with Christ Jesus [MET]. Those people wanted to make us [like] slaves [MET] [of those rituals by convincing us that we cannot trust Christ solely but that we must also obey all the Jewish rituals].
5 et auxquels nous n'avons pas cédé de place dans la voie de la soumission, pas même une heure, afin que la vérité de la Bonne Nouvelle fût maintenue parmi vous.
But not even briefly did we [(exc)] do what they wanted [about circumcision. We(exc) resisted them] in order that the truth of the message about Christ might continue to [benefit] you.
6 Mais de ceux qui avaient la réputation d'être importants - quels qu'ils soient, cela ne fait aucune différence pour moi; Dieu ne fait pas de différence entre les hommes. Ceux-là, dis-je, qui étaient respectés, ne m'ont rien communiqué,
The [leaders in Jerusalem], whom your new teachers respect, did not add anything to what I preach. [And I would add that] what status those leaders had did not influence me, because God does not favor certain/important persons [IDM] more than others.
7 mais au contraire, lorsqu'ils ont vu qu'on m'avait confié la Bonne Nouvelle pour les incirconcis,
Instead of those leaders adding to the message that I tell people, they understood that I had been given the good message {God had given the good message to me} so that I might proclaim it to the non-Jews [MTY], just like [God] had given the good message to Peter so that he might tell it to those who are Jews [MTY].
8 car celui qui a agi par Pierre dans l'apostolat auprès des circoncis, a aussi agi par moi auprès des païens,
That is, just like [God] had empowered/authorized Peter in order that he might be an apostle [to bring God’s message] to the Jews [MTY], he also had empowered/authorized me in order that I might be an apostle to [bring his message to] the non-Jews.
9 et lorsqu'ils virent la grâce qui m'était faite, Jacques, Céphas et Jean, les colonnes réputées, nous donnèrent, à Barnabas et à moi, la droite de communion, afin que nous allions vers les païens, et eux vers les circoncis.
And [those leaders] knew that God had kindly given to me this special work. So James, Peter, and John, the ones whom your new teachers [respect because they are] leaders [MET] [of the believers], shook hands with us [IDM] [to show that they agreed that Barnabas and I are serving the Lord just like they are, and that we are preaching the same message that they are preaching]. They also agreed that we [(exc)] are the ones whom God was sending to [tell his message to] non-Jews, but that God is sending them to [tell his message to] Jews [MTY].
10 Ils nous demandaient seulement de nous souvenir des pauvres, ce que je faisais aussi avec zèle.
They merely urged that we [(exc)] still remember to help the poor [fellow believers who live in Jerusalem]. That is exactly what I have been eager to do.
11 Mais lorsque Pierre vint à Antioche, je lui résistai en face, parce qu'il était condamné.
But [later while I was at] Antioch [city], after Peter came there, I told him directly [SYN] that what he was doing was wrong.
12 En effet, avant que des gens ne viennent de la part de Jacques, il mangeait avec les païens. Mais quand ils sont venus, il s'est retiré et s'est mis à l'écart, craignant ceux qui étaient de la circoncision.
[This is what happened]: [Peter went to Antioch and started eating regularly with non-Jewish believers there]. Later there were certain [Jewish believers who] came [to Antioch who claimed that] James, [the leader of the congregations in Jerusalem], had sent them. But when [those certain] men came, Peter gradually quit [eating] with the non-Jewish believers and would not associate with them. He was afraid that the Jewish [believers from Jerusalem would criticize him for associating with non-Jews].
13 Et les autres Juifs se joignirent à lui dans son hypocrisie, de sorte que Barnabas lui-même se laissa entraîner par leur hypocrisie.
Also, the other Jewish [believers who were in Antioch] [SYN] acted (insincerely/in a way that they knew was not right) along with [Peter]. The result was that they convinced even Barnabas to [stop associating with the non-Jewish believers]!
14 Voyant qu'ils ne marchaient pas droitement selon la vérité de la Bonne Nouvelle, je dis à Pierre, en présence de tous: « Si toi, qui es Juif, tu vis comme les païens et non comme les Juifs, pourquoi obliges-tu les païens à vivre comme les Juifs?
But when I realized that they were not acting according to the truth of the message about Christ, [when] all [the fellow believers there] were present, I told Peter [the following]: “Although you [(sg)] are a Jew, [you often conduct yourself] like non-Jews [do by disregarding Jewish laws about food. When you are among non-Jews], you [(sg)] do not customarily conduct yourself at all like Jews [do]. So, (now it is wrong that you [(sg)] are causing non-Jews [to think that they must obey all] the Jewish rituals and customs!/why are you [(sg)] causing non-Jews [to think that they must obey all] the Jewish rituals and customs?) [RHQ]”
15 Nous, qui sommes Juifs par nature et non païens pécheurs,
Some of us [believers] were born as Jews. We [(exc)] were not born as non-Jews. [We Jews have always considered non-Jews to be] ‘sinners’ [because they do not obey the Jewish rituals and laws].
16 sachant cependant que ce n'est pas par les œuvres de la loi que l'homme est justifié, mais par la foi en Jésus-Christ, nous aussi nous avons cru en Jésus-Christ, afin d'être justifiés par la foi en Christ et non par les œuvres de la loi, car aucune chair ne sera justifiée par les œuvres de la loi.
But we [(exc)] now know that it is not because some person obeys the laws [that God gave to Moses] that [God] erases the record of that person’s sins. [God erases the record of a person’s sins only if that person trusts in what Jesus Christ has done]. Even we [(exc)] Jews trusted Christ Jesus. We [(exc)] did that in order that [God] would erase the record of our sins because of our trusting Christ, and not because of our obeying the laws [that God gave to Moses. God has said that] he will [never] erase the record of people’s sins just because of their obeying those laws.
17 Mais si, tandis que nous cherchions à être justifiés en Christ, nous avons nous aussi été trouvés pécheurs, Christ est-il un serviteur du péché? Certainement pas!
Furthermore, because we [(exc) Jews] desired that [God] would erase the record of our sins because of our relationship with Christ, [it means that] we realized that we ourselves were sinners [like non-Jews, whom we called] sinners, [because we(exc) also were not obeying the Jewish rituals and laws]. [But] ([we(inc) certainly cannot conclude] that it is Christ who causes us to sin./[should we conclude] that it is Christ who causes us to sin?) [RHQ] [No, Christ] certainly does not [cause anyone to sin].
18 Car si je rebâtis ce que j'ai détruit, je suis moi-même un transgresseur de la loi.
So if I should again believe [that God would erase the record of my sins because of my obeying the laws that he gave to Moses] [MET], [I would be like a man who] rebuilds an old building that he tore down. It would [soon] be clear that I am one who disobeys those same laws [that God gave to Moses].
19 Car, par la loi, je suis mort à la loi, afin de vivre pour Dieu.
When [I realized that I could not earn God’s favor] by [obeying] the laws [that he gave to Moses, I decided not] to [respond to what those laws demanded] [MET], [just like] a dead person [does not respond to anything]. Now I live to [honor/serve] God.
20 J'ai été crucifié avec Christ, et ce n'est plus moi qui vis, mais Christ qui vit en moi. La vie que je mène maintenant dans la chair, je la mène par la foi au Fils de Dieu, qui m'a aimé et s'est livré pour moi.
[It is as though] I was with Christ when he was crucified {died on the cross} [MET] (OR, [It is as though] my [old way of life ended when] Christ died on the cross.) No longer am I [directing the way I behave as I did before I believed in Christ]. Now Christ [is directing how] I [behave. And whatever I do] now while I live, I do it trusting in God’s Son. He is the one who loved me and offered himself [as a sacrifice] for me.
21 Je ne rejette pas la grâce de Dieu. Car si la justice passe par la loi, alors Christ est mort pour rien! »
I am not rejecting [as useless] what God [did for me] ([kindly/that I did not deserve]), [as my opponents are doing. I fully accept that God saved me by acting kindly towards me]. If it is because people [obey the] laws [that God gave to Moses] that God erases the record of their sins, then Christ died (for nothing/needlessly).
